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[Eclipse 3.4] Using multiple configurations with a shared installation [message #329532]

Fri, 27 June 2008 06:43

Eclipse User

Up to Eclipse 3.4 I've been using to start Eclipse the following way:

eclipse -configuration <cfg_path> -data <wsp_path>

I'm using number of configuration areas setup with different
extension location sets. I eventually run:

eclipse -initialize

of the main shared configuration to improve startup time (as
suggested in the documentation [1]) but I haven't really seen much
improvement, if at all.

Now with the Eclipse 3.4 release I observe I can no longer use this
approach. If I specify a -configuration different from the shared
one I get a workbench with some minimal set of features ("Resource",
"Team Synchronizing" and "Debug" - no "Java").

FWIW, I've noticed an additional "p2" directory gets created in the
same parent directory of the configuration directory location I've
specified.

Is it possible (and how) to use multiple configurations with a
shared installation of Eclipse 3.4?

[1]
http://help.eclipse.org/help33/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse. platform.doc.user/tasks/running_eclipse.htm

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Stanimir

Re: [Eclipse 3.4] Using multiple configurations with a shared installation [message #329581 is a reply to message #329532]

Sun, 29 June 2008 08:51

Eclipse User

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:43:07 +0300, /Stanimir Stamenkov/:

> Up to Eclipse 3.4 I've been using to start Eclipse the following way:
>
> eclipse -configuration <cfg_path> -data <wsp_path>
[...]
> Now with the Eclipse 3.4 release I observe I can no longer use this
> approach. If I specify a -configuration different from the shared one I
> get a workbench with some minimal set of features ("Resource", "Team
> Synchronizing" and "Debug" - no "Java").

I don't know what happens but seems it works in some cases, in some
cases it doesn't. The following case always makes Eclipse 3.4 start
the way I've described above:

1. Extract Eclipse to "I:\ecl\eclipse";
2. Change the current directory to "I:\ecl\eclipse" and start it using:

eclipse -console -configuration I:\ecl\cfg -data I:\ecl\wsp

I don't see any error reported. If I change the command line to:

eclipse -console -configuration I:\tmp\cfg -data I:\tmp\wsp

It works just fine.

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Stanimir

Re: [Eclipse 3.4] Using multiple configurations with a shared installation [message #329583 is a reply to message #329581]

Sun, 29 June 2008 09:03

Eclipse User

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:51:23 +0300, /Stanimir Stamenkov/:

[...]
>> I get a workbench with some minimal set of features ("Resource", "Team
>> Synchronizing" and "Debug" - no "Java").
>
> I don't know what happens but seems it works in some cases, in some
> cases it doesn't. The following case always makes Eclipse 3.4 start the
> way I've described above:
>
> 1. Extract Eclipse to "I:\ecl\eclipse";
> 2. Change the current directory to "I:\ecl\eclipse" and start it using:
>
> eclipse -console -configuration I:\ecl\cfg -data I:\ecl\wsp
>
> I don't see any error reported. If I change the command line to:
>
> eclipse -console -configuration I:\tmp\cfg -data I:\tmp\wsp
>
> It works just fine.

FWIW, I'm using the Java EE package (eclipse-jee-ganymede-win32.zip).

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Stanimir

Re: [Eclipse 3.4] Using multiple configurations with a shared installation [message #329670 is a reply to message #329583]

Tue, 01 July 2008 04:42

Eclipse User

I asked a similar question, at
http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.platform/msg73 785.html

- and there were no satisfying answer.

Roman

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